Andy Warhol paints Debbie Harry on an Amiga at the Commodore Amiga product launch press conference in 1985.
He was a crazy pop artist who invented pop art, painted over photos, very creative.
Andy Warhol is 6 August 1928 - 22 February 1987 is an artist's name Andrew Warhola, who was an American painter and one of the main forces in the pop art movement.
Andy Warhol's family emigrated from Slovakia. He showed early signs of artistic talent and studied to become a commercial artist at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, USA. He moved to New York in 1949, where he made a name within the character art and advertising.
Warhol became a familiar figure in New York's glamorous environment where he frequented the famous nightclubs like Studio 54 He was openly gay, something that was very unusual for media personalities in the 1960s. Warhol became a celebrity in line with the entertainment industry's biggest stars, like the contemporary Joseph Beuys in Europe can often be difficult to separate art and personality in his work.
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